GOLDEN DAY; AMERICANS MAKE HISTORY IN TITLE GAME : U.S. 3, CANADA 1.Byline: Jason La Jason La Choon San , Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. Male, 21, It's complicated TM Location: Sunway City Ipoh Hometown: Kuala Kangsar College: Taylor's College Subang Jaya Company: HILLCITY-LA Canfora Detroit Free Press The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep". Some still refer to it locally as "The Friendly" -- a slogan from an ad campaign in the '70s. As the U.S. women's hockey players boarded the bus from the Olympic Village Frequently, an Olympic Village is built within an Olympic Park or elsewhere in a host city. Olympic Villages are built to house all participating athletes, as well as officials, trainers, etc. The idea of the Olympic Village comes from Pierre de Coubertin. to play the most important, most anticipated game of their lives, emotions started rushing. The players then sat, eyes fixed on monitors, watching a 10-minute montage of Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali, pasha of Egypt Muhammad Ali, 1769?–1849, pasha of Egypt after 1805. He was a common soldier who rose to leadership by his military skill and political acumen. fighting George Foreman George Edward Foreman (born January 10, 1949) is an American two-time World Heavyweight Boxing Champion. He is the oldest man ever to win the heavyweight title, and also has been named one of the 25 greatest fighters of all time by Ring magazine. , intertwined with clips of them humbling Team Canada, their gold-medal opponents, in a pre-Olympic game. Ali lands a jab. Team USA
Team USA (also known as Team NWA or Team TNA) is a wrestling faction brought together as part of Total Nonstop Action Wrestling's X-Cup Tournaments, which scores a goal. Ali rants. The women celebrate on the bench. Ali's hands are raised in victory. Team USA wins. A prelude to history. ``Watching that, I got tears in my eyes In My Eyes was a Boston straight edge band that spearheaded the 1997 youth crew revival along with Ten Yard Fight, Bane, The Trust, Fastbreak and Floorpunch. The band and its members were a part of the hot bed that was the Boston music scene in the late 90's and early 2000's. because I could see us doing the same things,'' said Lisa Brown-Miller. ``I could see us throwing our gloves in the air like we did in the video. ``The butterflies started racing through my body. You didn't have to say anything when the clip was over. Everybody knew what the message was. Everybody was extremely motivated.'' They had lived this moment 200 times before with their sports psychologist, but it never matched the flood of adrenaline, relief, ecstasy or vindication that came with beating Canada 3-1 on Tuesday for the first Olympic gold medal in women's hockey history. Nothing could touch that moment, shared with each other and family sitting in the stands - the moment when hockey trailblazers who had sacrificed so much for the dream commanded the world's attention and took their overlooked sport to a new level. ``I never imagined the impact it would have to win a gold medal,'' said Brown-Miller, 31, the oldest player on the team. ``This team has been on a mission for so long. Going in, there was no question in my mind we would win the gold medal, but to actually have it happen, it just caved in on me. The emotions were just overwhelming.'' Brown-Miller wept when Japanese girls came onto the ice to present the team with flowers and their medals. The pregame dressing-room jitters jitters 'Butterflies' Psychology An episode of nervousness or anxiety that often precedes a public event; jitters is a type of performance anxiety which may affect actors in a stage production–stage fright or soloist musicians; it may respond to anxiolytics , an almost unbearable combination of nerves and excitement, begat those tears of joy on the ice. Team captain Cammi Granato arrived at the arena to find a bouquet of flowers from her junior high school, and a surprise from her older sister, Christina - a picture of the first time a young Christina held her baby sister in her arms - affixed af·fix tr.v. af·fixed, af·fix·ing, af·fix·es 1. To secure to something; attach: affix a label to a package. 2. to a gold piece of paper, with the message: ``A sister's love is golden.'' ``We never played together as kids,'' Christina said. ``She was a jock, I was a femme femme adj. Slang Exhibiting stereotypical or exaggerated feminine traits. Used especially of lesbians and gay men. n. 1. Slang One who is femme. 2. Informal A woman or girl. fatale. We never went to school together. She's been so precious to share all these experiences with me.'' Jim Craig, the goalie for the underdog 1980 U.S. Olympic men's hockey team that took home the gold, sent over an inspirational fax. Right before the pregame skate, women's coach Ben Smith handed alternate captain Karyn Bye a fax from Bill Baker, her hero from that 1980 team, who also wore her No. 6 and played the point on the power play. She taped it to her dressing room stall, and read it to her teammates as they gathered around. The world was watching. Team USA would not disappoint. The U.S. scored on the power play after an apprehensive first period, and went into the final intermission clinging to a 1-0 lead. They were pumped up in the dressing room. They could sense the impending im·pend intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends 1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending. 2. victory, and mouths were moving. Granato and Bye addressed the team as they always do, and as they convened for the huddle that ends each intermission, Brown-Miller was moved to speak. The veteran commanded the attention of her teammates, some more than 10 years her junior, and tried to instill in·still v. To pour in drop by drop. in  stil·la tion n. tranquility before the
final period of hockey this team would ever play together.
But the third period belonged to Canada and its relentless attack. Finally, Shelley Looney drew a body-checking penalty from Canada at center ice, and took her spot by the far post on the power play - a position she had never played in before the Olympics. Just before the game, one of Looney's friends from home called to say she would be watching when the Olympian scored that night. With 9:03 left, Looney poked the puck past goalie Manon Rheaume and into the net - what would stand as the gold medal-winning goal. ``A long time ago, I said I was going to score the gold-winning goal,'' Looney said. ``For it actually to happen, I just can't imagine what else could happen in my life that I would feel this way. I just want to cherish this moment.'' The moments that followed were even more memorable. Sandra Whyte scored an empty-net goal with eight seconds remaining, chants of ``USA, USA'' rained down and goalie Sarah Tueting, who nearly quit the sport six months ago, put her hands over her head and jumped up and down in utter disbelief. Their moment had arrived. The bench erupted in a geyser geyser (gī`zər) [Icel.], hot spring from which water and steam are ejected periodically to heights ranging from a few to several hundred feet. of sticks and gloves. Bye draped drape v. draped, drap·ing, drapes v.tr. 1. To cover, dress, or hang with or as if with cloth in loose folds: draped the coffin with a flag; a robe that draped her figure. herself in the flag the way Craig had 18 years earlier. Angela Ruggiero, who grew up in Simi Valley, skated the length of the ice to retrieve the game puck for her father Bill, who couldn't make it to Japan, as she'd promised to do, and paraded around with a flag someone gave her from the stands. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--Color) Lisa Brown-Miller, left, the oldest member of the U.S. women's hockey team at 31, hugs Karyn Bye. Associated Press (2) Members of the U.S. hockey team gather on the ice to celebrate after defeating Canada to win the first-ever Olympic women's tournament. Akira Suwa / Philadelphia Inquirer |
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